Re: Ovals round a circle?
that should be Genii or maybe geniae ... maybe :D
ok got a tutorial somewhere I'll dig it out, if no-one beats me to it first
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Re: Ovals round a circle?
Create a blend and then attach the blend to the circle.
Note: The blend steps will be centered on the diameter of the circle. But you can increase or decrease the diameter of the circle. The circle around which the ellipses are aligned needs to be a separate circle.
Once you've sorted the steps and size, select the blend path circle and set the outline and fill to none.
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I knew I could rely on gary... and in case you get stuck - heres how I did it back in the day...
Re: Ovals round a circle?
Hello All,
Just wanted to say thank you so much. That was so easy. Knew it was some kind of blend, but couldn't remember why! Really appreciate your taking the time to help me, including with illustrations.
All the best.
Ali
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Re: Ovals round a circle?
It could also be done as a custom brush stroke. Just make a single oval the brush, then adjust the spacing as needed.
If you use a brush, then you can use the Offset setting to move the ellipses off the circle.
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Good morning. Sorry for the delay in responding, but in my defence, I was fast asleep!
Thank you for this, Gary. Am going to experiment now.
Ali
Re: Ovals round a circle?
The method you might want to consider is using the constrain angle in the Page Options menu as it gives you a high degree of control. They are many tutorials which have used this method and here is one: http://www.xaraxone.com/tutorials/au...orial%201.html
Further on in the tutorial Gary goes into using the constrain angle in more depth and there are other tutorials using the same procedure.
Re: Ovals round a circle?
Thanks, Albacore. Nice to have so many different methods available.
Happy Sunday.
Ali
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I also thanks for the tutorials, tried to create and finally was succesful, but can I ask a short?
Why in the exported .png the petal borders are "not smooth"? On the Xara Designer screen it is beautiful smooth, but not in the exported file
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